One complaint about Leopard is the faux leather appearance of the interface… If that is annoying you, then take a look at: Big Bucket – Archive – Ripping Out iCal’s Torn Page – How to remove the \”Turn page\” elements from iCal OS X Daily details how to return iCal to the non-leather appearance. Please keep […]
The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack from malware authors? That soon we\’d all be running resource-sucking virus scanners and a-fearing […]
Rumor has it, that Lion makes the User\’s library folder hidden. Which could make it annoying to power users that need access to the library folder. One option, is to use the Go To Folder command, and type \”~/Library\”. That will open the library folder in a standard finder window. Another option, is to \”unhide\” […]
Malware on the Mac: is it mostly hype or a real problem faced by real people? If you ask John Gruber, the answer might be the former—there are lots of proof-of-concept scenarios and virtually none that manifest themselves beyond a slow news day. If you ask Ed Bott, however, the answer would be the latter—he […]
Can you believe it?  The cruel inhumanity of it all, the poor defenseless creature, brutally torn apart and cataloged… The 21.5″ iMac (EMC 2428) scored a very respectable 7 out of 10 Repairability Score. Most of the disassembly is pretty straightforward and accomplished using a T10 Torx screwdriver and suction cups. A casual user can […]
Apple has released a new version of Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 2 Build 11A444d. The newly released update is about 1.17GB in size. The new features and bugfixes are still unknown. You can download the update via Software Update.According to Macrumors, minor change in the user interface… via Apple Released Mac OS X […]
Yesterday Perian updated its QuickTime plug-in for the Mac. For those of you who don\’t know about it, Perian is a plug-in allowing Mac users to view a virtually unlimited number of video codecs in QuickTime Player. Among the codecs are AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6 and VFW, just to name a few. Go […]
According to CNet TV presenter Brian Tong, Apple is all set to update the iMac with all new Intel Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt. There won’t be a redesign. The new machines will look the same as the old, which is no bad thing.Brian, a CNET reporter, previously tweeted out… via Apple Soon Releasing New […]